With the publication of Bopp's ComparativeGrammar the historical study of language was put upon a stable footing.
3
The only large work was William Wright's "Lectures on the ComparativeGrammar of the Semitic Languages", Cambridge, 1890.)
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In Bopp's ComparativeGrammar of the Indo-Germanic languages which appeared in 1833, three-quarters of a century ago, the foundations of Comparative Philology were laid.